Posted by Harlan Messinger on 08/28/06 13:16

kaston3 wrote:
> So it seems that in their unduly extreme crusade to fight phising,
> spyware and thousand of enemies MS IE 7 designers have decided not to
> let designers open popups without the address/location toolbar.
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/11/21/495507.aspx
>
> thouh in the "example" here it seems to suggest otherwise
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/open_0.asp
>
>
> window.open("Sample.htm",null,
>
> "height=200,width=400,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no");-->
> is supposed to open window with no location bar.
>
> This is really very bad news. Many game, photo and style sites rely on
> no-bars-at-all pop-ups to display info elegantly without any ugly html
> code trace.

So in your opinion, this is tremendously more important than security,
including the prevention of identity theft?

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